14th Asia-Pacific Eco-Business Forum in Kawasaki
Session2 Environmental Technology to Help Achieve SDGs

Contribution to SDGs by using ICTFebruary 1, 2018
Tsuyoshi Horinouchi
Assistant General Manager of TQM Division
Department Manager of Environmental Management Department

Proportion of Sales（By Operating Segments）
Others■■Public Business

11％

291.3
(B¥)

System Platform Business■27％

719.8(B¥)

FY2016
Sales bysegment

23％

Telecom Carrier Business■

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28％
736.0
(B¥)

11％
306.3
(B¥)

■Enterprise Business

NEC's 7 Social Value Creation Themes for Resolving Social Issues

Safer Cities & Public Services

Sustainable Earth

Quality of LifeThe Seven
Themes for Social
Value Creation

Lifeline Infrastructure

Work Style

Communication
Industry Eco-System3© NEC Corporation 2018

Important Themes for Environmental Management
Paris Agreement
on climatechange measures

COP21 held in 2015

(21st Session of the Conference of Parties
to the United Nations Framework

SDGs(SustainableDevelopment Goals)

United Nations SustainableDevelopment Summit
held in 2015

Convention on Climate Change)

Review and reinforce
our environmental management
action plan focusing on SDGs
and climate change.

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Poverty and agricultural productivity improvement ~MozambiqueUser(farmer) can purchaseagricultural material withfinancial aid

coupons
Changed to E-voucher

FAO Financial aidNECICCARD

e-VoucherICCARD

e-voucher system
CloudServer

Tabletterminal

Stable operation isrealized in rural areas
where infrastructure
is weak and resources
with IT skills are limited.

Hunger and poverty in rural areas are big problems in Mozambique
FAO s aid project to provide better breed, fertilizer and agricultural chemicals has also problems.

e-Voucher systems thanks to E-money technology promote to; decrease negative environmental impact in making paper-basedand disposable coupon
 enable equitable financial aid and increase the efficiency,
usability and transparency of the project improve the productivity by providing the aids to needy persons
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Damage reduction against large-scale typhoon ~ Philippines
Launched research and development of the Coastal Disaster Simulation System"
to examine and assess disaster reduction effects by Green infrastructure

Granted by the Environment Research and Technology Development Fund in March 2017.

Changes intyphoon characteristic due to global
warming

Mangrove's plantcharacteristics+effects of global
warmingHigh tide and high Disaster
reduction model
wave long-term
assessment model with mangrovesdevelopment

Mangrovehydraulicexperiment

Mangrove element
modeling

Social implementation technologies

Underlying
technologies

Coretechnologies

Develop the disaster reduction and life cycle cost assessment methodby the optimum combination of the green (mangrove) and the gray(embankment) against typhoons, high tides, and high waves.
Life cycle cost assessment

Green infrastructure / gray infrastructure

Optimization for areas andexternal force

Support adaptation for climate change and contributetowards building and maintaining safe and secure community
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Support for safer cities〜Tigre City, Argentina

Prevent crimes and accidents by recognition technologies

Improve surveillance efficiency by detecting
unusual human and traffic related behaviors
in specific scenarios:
ex. Railways station, Banking areas,
Access roads, streets, parks & open places.

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Effective waste collection by using IoT〜 Santander, Spain

Joint venture with Spanish waste collection service provider ASCAN
Real time data collection
about the quantity of thewaste and the location of bin

Analyze the data at the management
center, show appropriate collection
route and timing to the wastecollection vehicle.

Implemented a sophisticated waste collection service for thecity of Santander in Spain using sensors and Big Data analytics.
This reduced unnecessary collection trips, thereby reducing
operating costs and CO2 emissions.
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Optimize Logistics~IndiaDelhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor Project Container tracking service utilizing Logistics Visualization System
 Real time recognition of accurate location of transporting containers Contribution to decrease the transportation lead-time, cost and to improve
the accuracy of manufacturing Contribute to consumption reduction of the fossil fuel
 Modal shift will be accelerated by the improvement of railroad, and alarge CO2 reduction is expected
Track(Private)
Track(Business)

RFID tagShip≒1/10

train

RFID reader
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国土交通省HP；運輸部門における二酸化炭素排出量より
http://www.mlit.go.jp/sogoseisaku/environment/sosei
̲environment̲tk̲000007.html（2016.7 Service-in)Spreading the understanding of SDGs to all employees
SDGs Work-shop● Held in : February, 2017
 Participants：younger employees who are in charge ofoverseas business / new business development

Facilitator；
NPO CRT(Caux Round Table）
CSR advisor Minoru Matsuzaki

SDGs Lecture● Held in : September, 2017
● Participants ：Sales Unit / Business Unit / R＆Ｄ /Corporate Staff

Special Advisor to UNEP FinanceInitiative in the Asia Pacific region

Takejiro Sueyoshi

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Effect of the SDGs education
Did you know SDGs？
YES, very well
32 14%

 Before a lecture, notmany people did notunderstand SDGs

NO, the first time
33 14%
YES, have ever

YES, but only to some extent

heard of it

116 51%48 21%

n=229

NEC自身の活動における配慮

Consider it at own
operation75%

Contribution
through
事業化にあたっての考慮business73%

 After a lecture, many
people understood theimportance ofcontribution toward SDGs
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For SDGs, how do you thinkthat you should take action?

Co-creation
with
お客様との共創customer
その他
Others

69%
9%

0%

25%

50%

75%

100%